How we know Iran and North Korea won't use nuclear weapons

by Anthony Mendoza

Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency Mohamed El Baradei has made an unequivocal statement that he had no evidence that Iran is building nuclear weapons. "We haven't received any information there i...read more

by Robert C. Sage

Actually, we don't know that Israel, Pakistan, India, China or other nuclear club nations won't use their nuclear weapons either, but we do know that if they have realistic hope for the future, they wouldn't want to cause ...read more

by Adam Greenwood

For most Westerners, the only guarantee that North Korea and Iran won't use nuclear weapons, is if the two nations are relieved of their nuclear weapons through force of arms. That is largely a product of Western media sca...read more

by Scott Heritage

The main reason Korea and Iran wouldn't use their nuclear weapons is that they are not powerful or strong enough to survive the retaliation attacks by the numerous countries around the world who would subsequently invade t...read more

by Ran Porat

The countries of East Asia and the American government were recently placed on alert after North Korea preformed its first nuclear test following its missile test in July of this year. It seems that Kim Jong-Il, the Com...read more

by J. Audet

In today's world, nuclear weapons are far more effective when used as attention grabbers and bargaining chips than they are as actual doomsday devices. Kim Jong Ill of N. Korea wields his country's nuclear capabilitie...read more

by Joey Goze

Those who have faith in the regimes of Iran and North Korea to not use nuclear weapons are the same people looking in the sky to spot Santa Claus this holiday season. They simply have no connection to reality. My eye...read more

by Roberto Alvarez-Galloso

The question should be paraphrased on the possibility of Iran and North Korea using nuclear weapons. Both regimes are unpredictable in their behavior, are secretive, and when there is a threat real or imagined. North Ko...read more

by Danny Brownstein

Plain and simple, we really don't know that Iran and North Korea won't use nuclear weapons. We do know that neither of the countries will launch weapons directly. Why? Because they have countries to rule over. They have so...read more

by James Ruhnke

We don't. After all, the only time in history that they were used was by the worlds most benevolent democracy. I think the question here should be, "How do we reduce and eliminate the chances of nuclear war from happeni...read more

by Jodi Bopp

First of All we don't know that Iran and North Korea won't nuke us we for the most part are sitting ducks , This war is far from over and whatever anyone wants to say weather they like bush or not its was going to happen ,...read more

by The Original Maverick

Unlike the United States, the most powerful nation in the history of earth, Korea and Iran are renegade countries ruled by madmen. America could have wiped out it's enemies after WWII when they held a monopoly on nuclear w...read more

by Bhumika Ghimire

Well US used nuclear weapons against Japan, did Japan know that it was going to happen..? Also Israel has a nuke and it is not friends with its neighbors,so how do the Arab nations know that Israel will not nuke them? Y...read more

by Bruce A. Gorcyca

Sovereignty is a concept that is mostly ignored by the Bush Administration whenever the nation in question is not the United States of America. Canada got a taste of this first-hand with the softwood lumber fiasco in the ...read more

by Jon Dierenfeld

How we know Iran and North Korea won't use nuclear weapons is a mixed question. North Korea stated its development because it needed energy; unfortunately, perhaps that energy proofed too unmanageable - common knowledge s...read more

by Jack Merridew

Any country with the awesome power of a nuclear weapon as their right hand, know the responsibility such a weapon entails. We tend to look at North Korea and Iran as cold-hearted terrorist aiding empire seekers, using nucl...read more

by David Thames

Nuclear weapons = bad. So the U.S. has dropped 2 atomic bombs. Everyone is fully aware of this fact. The problem is not what the U.S. is going to do. We all know that the U.S. would much rather send every available man ...read more